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Connecting to Video Monitor via Component
I have the breakout box for my Kona LHe and today I connected the 3 Red Green and Blue outputs to the 3 Red Green and Blue inputs on the plasma screen in my suite.
So, I fire it all up, select component input on the video monitor and all I can see is Bars. What’s more, some of the bars are various shades of pink, and the others are blue, gray and black!
What I want to see is the timeline output from FCP.
I’m sure I have the cables connected in the right order…any ideas?
Thanks for your attention,
Best,
Steve.
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5 Replies
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Steve- Quit FCP>Launch Aja control panel>control>default video output>color bars. What do you see? Don’t leave the control panel until you see color bars. Then launch FCP and choose the proper video settings within FCP until you have a proper picture in your monitor. I’m getting off now as I hear the footsteps of Mr. Zelin.
HTH,
JerryG5 Dual 3GB Ram
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Your component connection to the monitor won’t, in all probability, be RGB. They’ll be labelled something like Y, R-Y and B-Y (I think – not in front of the computer now so can’t check) so double check your settings. Make sure the monitor is set to Component and not RGB.
It sounds like you’re getting a signal but not in the right order – pinky-green colour bars would indicate you need to check the order of your cabling. You’ll most likely have two round the wrong way. Start with Y – you should have a B&W image.
AFAIK the LHe outputs bars when no FCP signal is present so you’ll need to check all the seetings in the AJA control panel as well as your FCP settings. I’d use an easy setup in FCP, and make sure View Frames is set to ALL.
HTH
Jason
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Well I’ve cracked half the problem – or rather you’ve cracked it for me Jason – I set the View Frames to ALL and hey presto the picture came up on the screen! So thanks to you for that.
Meanwhile, the blues and dark areas are ok on the monitor, but the whites and skin tones are bright pink…maybe there’s a problem with the component inputs on the monitor…I’ll keep experimenting.
Onwards….
Cheers,
Steve.
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[Steve Price] ” but the whites and skin tones are bright pink…maybe there’s a problem with the component inputs on the monitor.”
Yup
your inputs are wrong.
gary adcock
Studio37
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This is true! I’ve never liked this monitor much, we’ve never really got along…I have now gone in through the phono composite input, and I have a picture with all the colours in the right order, so I’ll live with that for the time being.
Many thanks for your help.
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